He will be joined by the Idora Neighborhood Association, a group of residents in that South Side neighborhood, that has asked the church for about four years what is it going to do with the 26-acre parcel that Mount Calvary purchased in 1985 for $300,000.

The church had proposed at the time to build a $50 million City of God with a nursing home, counseling center, shopping plaza, retirement home along with religious education and worship facilities. It was never built.